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CHARLES LOYENS AND ANDERS PAULSON, OF BREDA, NETHERLANDS, AS- SIGNORS TOTHE DIAMOND MATCH COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

MACHINE FOR MAKING BOX-COVERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 557 ,516, dated March31, 1896.

Application filed September 9, 1893. Serial No. 485 ,199. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern.-

Beit known that we, CHARLES LOYENS and ANDERS PAULSON, residing atBreda, in the Netherlands, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Machines for Making Box-Covers; and we do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 isa view, partly in side elevation and partly in section, of a machineembodying our invention. Fig. 2 is a view of the same in end elevationwith parts in section, and Fig. 3 is a detail view in perspective of oneof the mandrel-rotating devices.

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of thefigures.

The object of our invention is to provide a machine for the rapid andcheap manufacture of boxes for matches, &c. and to this end saidinvention consists in the mechanism and in the construction andcombination of the parts thereof substantially as hereinafter speciiied.

The machine shown in the drawings is designed for the manufacture of thecover or casing parts of match-boxes of the telescoping type, whichparts are in the form of flatsided tubes with unclosed ends and made ofa veneer of wood covered externally and held in shape by paper. Saidmachine is of a similar general construction to those shown in our twoapplications for patent, serially numbered, respectively, 559,146 and559,147, iiled August 13, 1895, and more particularly resembles the oneshown in the former application-that is to say, it has a rotatableseries of rotatable mandrels, upon each of which a blank fed from asuitable hopper is adapted to be folded and covered by paper by a seriesof devices to which the mandrel is successively presented by therevolution of the series, the mandrel being rocked or rotated to enablethe proper and efficient operation of the folding devices.

As the invention covered herein relates only to devices or means forrocking or rotating each mandrel, it will not be necessary' to giveother than a general description of the other parts of the machine, as afull and detailed description and illustration thereof are to be foundin our applications hereinbefore referred to.

In the drawings, A designates a suitablysupported base or bed plate, tothe upper side of which are bolted two standards B and B, that at theirupper ends have bearings for a horizontal shaft C, which, through agear-wheel D and pinion E, receives motion from a drive-shaft F,journaled in bearings secured to the base A.

Keyed or otherwise fastened to the shaft C at a point between the twostandards B and I3 is a frame composed of two spiders that consist eachof a hub G and six radial arms g and g, said spiders being arranged sothat the arms of one extend in line with and parallel .to those of theother. Journaled in openings near the outer ends of each pair ofparallel spider-arms g and g is a horizontal shaft II that at one endhas attached an oblong flatsided block I, which constitutes a mandrel orformer on which the box-cover is shaped.

The blank from which the box-cover is made consists of a strip of veneerhaving a width corresponding to the length of the box and a lengthsufficient to form the two sides and ends of the cover, and before beingplaced in a hopper K, from which it is fed for being operated on, it isscored at points corresponding in position to the four corners of thecover to facilitate its being bent or folded around the mandrel.

From the hopper K the blank is fed by a pivoted cam-actuated arm L to aposition over and upon two pivoted plates M and N, with its middleportion in the path traveled by the mandrel in its revolution with theshaft C, said plates being suitably supported at opposite sides of suchpath with their free ends held yieldingly therein by springs. Thepassage of the mandrel between said plates causes the partial folding orbending of the blank on the mandrel, and the complete folding iseffected by the successive action of a series of fingers O, I), and Q,to and by which the mandrel moves.

The covering-paper is supplied from a roll R, from which it passes firstto a glue or paste applying mechanism S to receive the necessaryadhesive, and thence is carried into the path of the mandrel, beingapplied to the IOL) folded blank thereon by a series ofsuccessively-acting fingers or nippers T and T arranged at suitablepoints along the path traveled by the mandrel. Suitable cuttingmechanism at the proper time cuts the requisite amount of paper from thestrip for a boxcover.

For the proper presentation of the blank to the blank-folding andpaper-applying fingers it is necessary that the mandrel should berevolved on its shaft II sometimes in one direction, sometimes in theopposite, and sometimes held immovable on its own axis, and to this endwe employ the following-described mechanism: J ournaled in each pair ofmandrel-carrying arms g and g, parallel with the mandrel-shaft H thereofand at a point substantially midway between the latter and the shaft C,is a rock-shaft U, upon which, between the spiders, is mounted aU-shaped lever V, whose arms extend outward upon opposite sides of themandrel-shaft and carry at their respective ends one oftwo wheels orpulleys v and r. Passing several times around the mandrel-shaft or adrum 7L thereon and thence in opposite directions to and over the wheels'v and t is a rope or cord W, whose ends are secured to arms 0c and Qcpivoted upon a pin or rod X, that is secured to the pair of arms g and gbetween the mandrel-shaft and the rock-shaft U. It will thus be seenthat by. rocking the lever V the mandrel-shaft will be rotated, and in adirection corresponding with the direction of movement of said lever,and that when the latter is not rocked the mandrel will be held fromrotating on its own axis.

To place the rope or cord under sufficient tension to insure thedescribed effects upon the mandrel, we provide a coiled spring Y, oneend of which is attached to one of the arms as and the other endconnected to an end of said rope or cord. Crowding and consequent wearof the latt-er where it passes around the niandrehshaft or drinn areavoided by placing the two wheels t and c on opposite sides of the leverV, they being thereby situated sufficiently out of line to cause theseparation of the portions of the rope that pass around themandrel-shaft.

The position and movements of the lever V are controlled through itsrock-shaft U by means of a cam-plate Z, non-rotatively supported aroundthe shaft C by being rigidly secured to one of the standards B and B,the periphery of which is engaged by a frictionroller fu upon the end ofan inwardly-projecting arm t2 on the rock-shaft. A coiled spring A',secured at one end to a short arm c3 of the latter and at its other endto an extension of the pivot-rod X of the spider-arms g and g of thenext adjacent mandrel, operates to yieldingly hold the rollert incontact with the cam and move the lever V in the direction opposite thatcaused by the cam.

Certain portions of the cam are arcs of a circle concentric with theshaft C, and hence in the passage of the rollers t over them by therevolution of the mandrel-carrying frame no rocking of the levers V willbe caused, and other portions of said cam are so shaped as to cause orpermit said levers to be moved by the rocking of the shaft U in onedirection or the other.

Although we have described and shown our invention in connection with amachine for making box-covers, we wish it to be understood that it isentirely applicable to machines for making the receptacle part of thebox, and we also wish it understood that we do not limit the use of ourinvention in machines for making any particular form or shape of box orof any particular material or materials.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim isl. In a box-makingmachine, the combination of a rotatable mandrel, a two-armed lever,means for controlling the movement of the latter, and connectionsbetween the two arms of the lever, and the mandrel, substantially as andfor the purpose specified.

2. In a box-making machine, the combination of a rotatable mandrel, alever, means for controlling the movement of the latter, a rope, orother flexible device, passed around the mandrel-shaft, and extended toand engaged by separated points on the lever, substantially as and forthe purpose shown.

3. In a box-making machine, the combination of a rotatable mandrel, itsshaft, a traveling carrier journaling the shaft, a lever pivoted to thecarrier, a rope or other iiexible device fastened at one point to thecarrier, and thence carried to and over separated points on the lever,and to and over the mandrel-shaft, and means to control the movements ofthe lever, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

1i. In a box-making machine, the combination of a' rotatable mandrel,its shaft, a travelin g carrier jo urnalin g the shaft, a two-armedlever pivoted to the carrier having a wheel on each arm, a rope or otheriiexible device fastened at one point to the carrier and carried thenceover said wheels and around the mandrel-shaft, a tension deviceconnected with the rope, and means to control the movements of thelever, substantially as and for the purpose described.

5. In a box-making machine, the combination of a revolving carrier, amandrel, a shaft for the latter journaled by the carrier, a leverpivoted to the carrier, a rope or other flexible device passed aroundthe mandrel-shaft and extended to and engaged by separated points on thelever,la stationary cam, and an arm to copcrate therewith, connectedwith said lever, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

6. In a box-making machine, the combination of a revolving carrier, amandrel, a shaft for the latter j ournaled by said carrier, a rock-shaftjournalcd by the carrier, the two- IOO IIO

armed lever on the rook-shaft, a wheel earried by each arm of the lever,a Cord eonneeted at one point to the carrier and Carried thence overeach Wheel and around the mandrel-shaft, an arm connected to theroekshaft, a stationary @am engaged by said arm, and a spring noyeldingly hold the arm in Contact with the 0am, substantially as and forthe purpose shown.

CHARLES LOYENS. ANDERS PAULSON.

Witnesses JOSEPHUS J ONICERS, CORNELIS DE BRUIN.

